PRELUDE for the Patient
Osteopathic thought has always placed
the efficiency of the living body at the center of its philosophical framework.
We are changing the focus from traditional allopathic medicine
with its disease theory and emphasis on external control
to an osteopathic orientation:
The BODY is the first priority.
“… THE PATIENT
WHO HAS THE DISEASE
and not the disease
which has the patient.”
Beryl Arbuckle, 1977, page 28
Dr. Andrew Taylor Still, founder of Osteopathy, asked a relatively simple question:
How does a physician
stimulate this natural capacity of the body?
And the answer to this question gave birth to osteopathic medicine:
The structural alignment of the human system can stimulate normal blood flow
and thereby energize the natural healing abilities of the body.
“‘The best doctor is the one who can help Nature cure itself.”
Andrew Taylor Still
This inherent, self-regulatory potential of the body
is ultimately expressed in the craniosacral concept.
